The  encyclopedia of the paranormal
By: edited by Gordon Stein.
Contributors: Stein, Gordon.
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Amherst, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 859
Subjects: Parapsychology -- Encyclopedias
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Alchemy -- Altered states of consciousness -- “Alternative” health practices and quackery -- The Amityville horror -- Ancient astronauts -- Archaeology and the paranormal -- Astrology -- The Bermuda triangle -- Bigfoot -- Biorhythms -- Black magic -- Carlos Castaneda and Don Juan -- Cattle mutilations -- Edgar Cayce -- Channeling -- Coincidences -- Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP) -- Crop circles -- Cryptomnesia  -- Cryptozoology -- Déjà vu -- Dowsing -- Evil eye -- Extrasensory perception [ESP] -- Eyeless vision -- Fairies -- Fire immunity -- Charles Fort -- Fortunetelling -- Ganzfeld phenomena -- Ghosts and haunted houses -- Graphology -- Daniel Dunglas Home -- Harry Houdini and the paranormal -- Hypnosis -- Jung and the paranormal -- Karma -- Levitation -- Magic and PSI -- The media and the paranormal -- The Medium Margery (Mina Stinson Crandon) -- Carlos Mirabelli -- Miracles -- “Miraculous” phenomena -- Near-death experiences -- The “need to believe” -- New Age thinking -- Nostradamus -- Oakspe -- Out-of-body experiences -- Eusapia Palladino -- Palmistry -- Parapsychology -- The Philadelphia Experiment -- Photography (as it applies to the paranormal) -- Phrenology -- Mrs. Leonora Piper -- Poltergeists -- Possession and exorcism -- Prophetic dreams -- Pseudoscience -- Psychical research -- Psychic detectives -- Psychic healing -- Psychokinesis -- Psychokinetic metal bending -- Reincarnation -- Sai Baba -- Satan and Satanism -- Scientific creationism -- The shroud of Turin -- Skepticism and the paranormal -- “Dr.” Henry Slade -- Society for Psychical Research -- Spiritualism -- Spontaneous human combustion -- Statistics and the paranormal  -- Survival of death -- Talking apes -- Tarot -- Theosophy -- Unidentified flying objects [UFO] -- Vampires -- Velikovsky -- Visions and hallucinations -- Vodoun (voodoo) -- Werewolves -- Witchcraft / witches -- Witnesses to the paranormal (how reliable?) -- Xenoglossy -- Zombies.